Indian Mother Goddess/
Bhattacharyya,N.N.
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- New Delhi: Manohar Pubns, 1999.
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Introduction Development of the Conception Mother Goddess and the Cults and Rituals of Fertility Mothen Goddess and Agricultural Myths Mother Goddess and Female Dominated Societies The Mothers: Forms of the Cult Earth and Corn Mothers The Protectress of Children The City Goddesses The Goddess and the Animal World The Goddesses of Disease The War Goddesses The Goddesses of Mountains, Lakes and Rivers The Blood-thirsty Goddesses The Tribal Divinities Mother Goddesses in Literary and Mythological Records Prologue Goddesses of Egypt and Western Asia Goddesses of Greece and Asia Minor Goddesses of Mesopotamia and Iran Goddesses in the Vedic Literature of India Goddesses in the Epics Goddesses in Jain and Buddhist Literature Goddesses in South Indian Literature Goddesses in the Puranas Goddesses in other Literary Works Goddesses in Some Epigraphical Records Mother Goddesses in Archaeology The Earliest Archaeological Specimens The Harappan Goddess and Her Western Counterparts The Vedic and Post-Vedic Cults Specializations: The Gupta Age MahisamardinT and other Forms of Durga Uma, Parvati, etc. Laksm! and SarasvatT Matrkas, YoginTs, etc. Other Forms of the Goddess and their Shrines Buddhist and Jain Goddesses Mother Goddess and the Advanced Religious Systems Mother Goddess and Christianity Mother Goddess and Taoism Mother Goddess and Buddhism : Mother Goddess and Vaisijavism Mother Goddess and !§aivism Mother Goddess and Tantric Saktism Appendices I. Regional Distribution of the Goddess Cult The Epics and Puranas on Places Sacred to the Devt The Dev! Shrines in Earlier Tantras and Purapa The 108 Holy Resorts of the Mother Goddess Some Important Sites and Toponyms The Sakta PTthas II. The Female-Dominated Societies Economic Basis of the Social Domination of Sexes Anthropologists on the Concept of Mother-right Female-dominated Societies in Ancient Traditions The Women's Kingdoms in India Matriliny in Indian Societies Matrilocal Marriage in India The Philosophical Sahkhya Two Important Views The Non-Vedic Current III. Fertility Rites as the Basis of Tantrieism Prologue: The Tantric Sex Rites Fertility Rites of the Vedic Age Rites de Passage Fertility and Funeral Rites The Ritual of Wine Female Principle in Rituals IV. The Realm of Kamakhya